Cotton Bouts

This sweet North Carolina bride sent me photos of her beautiful wedding that I made the boutonnieres for via an Etsy order. So nice to see what they actually look like in the wedding!

Akins Photography

Akins Photography

Akins Photography

Vintage music sheet leaves, guinea feathers, cotton bolls, vintage buttons, and vintage seam binding ribbon.

Akins Photography

Akins Photography

Akins Photography

Such a beautiful wedding!

Akins Photography

All photography by Akins Photography, to see more pictures of this beautiful wedding visit their site here: akinsphtography

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Vintage Christmas

Christmas scenes in vintage jar and ornament box

Vintage deer in covered cigar boxes, covered suitcase, and ornaments

Vintage ornament frame display

Church attendance board turned advent calendar with vintage decorations

Vintage honeycomb snowmen turned into garland and vintage ornaments on tree

Vintage silver trees and some vintage ornaments on chalkboard advent calendar

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November Newsletter!

It's starting to get a little chilly out there, but that means hot cider and cocoa, glowing fireplaces, and holiday time with friends and family is on it's way! So excited to share our November news with you.
November 22nd: Friends of the Library is hosting a free event, "Entertaining For The Holidays" at the library. I will be doing a presentation at 10:00am and am getting super excited about the ideas/demos I'm going to share!
November 23rd: Holiday Preview starting at 1:00pm!
November 20th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm (a week early due to Thanksgiving)
November 24th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 

We have a fun Thanksgiving holiday DIY for you this month.

Turkey place cards and pumpkin favor bags. To make the turkeys, cut a 2 and 1/2 x 12 inch strip of decorative cardstock in a fun fall color. Fan-fold the paper back and forth. I made my folds about 3/8 to 1/2 inch wide.

Next, cut a 1/2 inch wide by about 5 inches long strip of cardstock and glue it to the bottom side of your last fold.

Glue the other side of your accordion to the rest of your strip, putting a little extra glue in the middle.

Then cut or punch out two circles. One 1 inch and the other 2 inches in diameter.

Chop off the bottom of the larger circle and glue the smaller circle to the top of it for the head and body of the turkey.

Poke some brads through the head for eyes, using a marker to make pupils on them. Then cut out a tiny yellow triangle for the beak.

Glue the beaks on. Then cut out a 1 x 2 inch cardstock rectangle for your names to be written on. Glue that behind your turkey's head, or poke one of his brad eyes through it to hold it in place and write a guest's name on the rectangle. Finally, glue the turkey body onto your fan-fold tail feathers. 

The pumpkin favor bag is pretty self-explanatory. Just fill a small brown paper bag with goodies, tying it tight about halfway down. I used a die cut to cut out a leaf, but you could draw a simple leaf to cut out or use a tag also. I tied the leaf on with brown manilla twine. Then twist the top of your bag to make the stem.

Hope you have a wonderful month! We are so thankful for all of our wonderful customers and supporters, you inspire us!

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Mint & Gold Wedding

So, so privileged to make the decorations for Eduardo and Holly's wedding. They have great taste! :) 

Photo by Zane Mulligan Photography

The bouts for the groom, dads, and groomsmen were cream paper leaves, 3 small mint roses, and 3 ivory daisies with gold pearl centers.

Photo by Zane Mulligan Photography

The bridesmaid bouquets were large cream curled petal roses, small mint roses (larger version of the ones in the boutonnieres), and gold glitter leaves.

Photo by Zane Mulligan Photography

Sweet photo of Holly's family, but I'm posting it for the mother's corsage :). The mothers' corsages were a cream folded edge rose, small gold glitter leaves, baby's breath, ivory daisies with gold pearl centers, and mint serrated edge leaves.

Photo by Zane Mulligan Photography

They chose a simple and elegant venue for the ceremony. There were mint tissue and cream origami flower bouquets at the ends of the rows and a simple gold glitter heart garland across the white heart-shaped arch. 

And yes, we made over 180 wands with ribbons and bells on them for the send off. :)

Cream, gold, and mint hearts surrounded the mint tissue flowers and cream origami flowers with pearl centers that were the centerpieces for the reception tables.

Mint and gold hearts on strings and a gold glitter Mr & Mrs banner for the head table, along with the bridesmaid bouquets. We punched out over 480 hearts by hand for the string garlands and hearts on the tables, but it was totally worth it!

So I think a toddler must have come along and ripped off the "T", but this is the only pic I have of the sweets and treats banner so I'm posting it anyway :). 

Photo by Zane Mulligan Photography

Um, so obviously I didn't make the cake, but I love the way the photographer framed the photo with the tissue poms hanging above. There was a group of mint, cream, and white tissue poms over the cake table and one over the sweets and treats table.

By the way, the first 5 beautiful photos and this last photo were taken by Zane Mulligan. He took some gorgeous shots of them at the falls too, so if you want to see more of this wedding and his beautiful photography, check out his website here. 

Well, I think that's a wrap folks. Thanks for viewing my work, and thank you so much to Mr. and Mrs. Sanchez Perry and their families for choosing me and putting up with me when I was anal about where things should go! Such a beautiful wedding and such a beautiful couple!

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September Newsletter!

Crazy month so far, but we are finally getting caught up! So thankful for all the wonderful brides and grooms that have chosen us to create pieces for their special day, and our first time at the Willow Tree Festival was amazing! Here is what's coming up:

September 23rd: Tiny Message Box/Diorama Class! Have fun creating tiny scenes and messages in boxes. Great for favors, Christmas decorations and advent calendars, and they are great way to brighten someone's day! All materials provided (including a bottle of my favorite PVA glue :)), $20. 6-9pm.

September 25th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 

September 29th:6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 

October 25th: MPCC Party Decoration Class! Learn how to make tissue poms, fan-fold pinwheels, buntings, and more! Materials provided. 10:00am-12:00pm. Please contact Mid-Plains Community College Valentine Campus to sign up. 402-376-8033 

Please let us know as soon as possible if you are planning on taking an adult class, so that we know how many supplies to order in.

Our DIY this month is perfect for a fun fall decoration. Just find the cheapest and ugliest fake pumpkins you can. And check for sales, because even ugly pumpkins can be expensive.

You will need an old brush, a saucer, some glue, some old books you don't want any more, glitter (optional) and a pumpkin. Pour some glue in a saucer. Begin ripping up pages from your books, even more appropriate if they have a scary theme :). Brush glue (I used PVA bookbinding glue) on the back of your book page strip and glue down around your pumpkin. 

Continue gluing strips until your pumpkin is covered. Let your pumpkin dry for at least 1/2 hour. Next, coat the outside with a good quality decoupage medium (I used PPA).

Let that dry and coat one more time. Finally, spray it with a varnish sealer. I covered the ugly stem with glitter to coordinate with the glitter covered pumpkin I made, which is essentially the same process, just much messier :). Happy Fall!

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We were so privileged that this amazing couple asked us to do all the decorations and flowers for their wedding.

I'm planning on doing a full post on the wedding and decorations when we get photos from the photographer, but for now couldn't resist a teaser :).

We are so thankful to the bridal party and family for helping set up and tear down everything, and of course to the bride and groom for choosing us to help make their day special! Congrats Eduardo and Holly! xoxoTweet

August Newsletter!

Lots of fun news for you this month, can't believe its getting so close to fall already! We hope you are enjoying the last weeks of summer and having fun getting ready for the new season.
August 26th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 
August 28th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 

September 23rd: Tiny Message Box/Diorama Class! Have fun creating tiny scenes and messages in boxes. Great for favors, Christmas decorations and advent calendars, and they are great way to brighten someone's day! All materials provided (including a bottle of my favorite PVA glue :)), $20. 6-9pm.

October 25th: MPCC Party Decoration Class! Learn how to make tissue poms, fan-fold pinwheels, buntings, and more! Materials provided. 10:00am-12:00pm. Please contact Mid-Plains Community College Valentine Campus to sign up. 402-376-8033 or nollettej@mpcc.edu

Our DIY this month is a great way to repurpose old metal TV trays. Just give the tray a fresh coat of paint (for regular paint, spray paint adheres great), drill two holes in the top, and string a pretty ribbon through for a magnetic message board. For this board, I used chalkboard paint so that messages can be both written on the tray and stuck on with magnets. Usually, brush on chalkboard paint is more durable than spray on chalkboard paint and will still adhere well to metal. To drill the holes, you'll want a high powered drill and a fairly large bit (I used a 3/8 inch bit). Just measure equal distances from each side and mark it with a pencil. Then drill holes where your marks are. If you don't have a drill, find a large nail and hammer it through the tray to create your holes. String your ribbon through and tie a pretty bow at the top to hang it with.

Enjoy your fun new message board. :)

We finally joined instagram and are posting lots of photos of new items throughout the week. We would love to have you follow us! Just click here: http://instagram.com/laceylemmert 

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New Window Displays

Neutral geometric mid-century modern window

Repurposed music window

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Folk Music Fun

Had a little fun last night and drew up a band poster for a folk band my husband is playing with :)

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July Newsletter!

Wow, summer is just flying by isn't it? We've been busy with some fun custom orders, can't wait until we are all done and can share pictures! We've also been busy with children's art classes :), here is our news:
July 15th, 22nd, & 29th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 
This summer we are focusing on tips and techniques for drawing portraits, learning about a different portrait artist each week.
August 26th: 6-10 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 
August 28th: 4-5 year old Children’s Art Class! $7.50 per class per child, $6.00 per child if you have more than one child in your family taking classes, all materials provided. 4:30-5:30pm 

And a fall class not to miss: MPCC Party Decoration Class on October 25th from 10am-noon! Learn how to make tissue poms, fan-fold pinwheels, buntings, and more! Materials provided. Please contact Mid-Plains Community College Valentine Campus to sign up. 402-376-8033 or nollettej@mpcc.edu
Our DIY this month is a fun way to package gift cards, jewelry, or other small gifts. Pillow boxes work great for this and there are so many pretty cardstock paper designs to chose from. Here's what you'll need: scissors, glue, bone folder, circular lid or pattern, and one sheet of 12x12 cardstock

Fold back both sides, one overlapping the other, to the desired width. Just line up the top and bottom edges of the paper to keep your fold straight. Run a line of glue along one side and glue the overlapping side down to it.

Next, center your lid or circle pattern onto the top edge of your paper. The smaller the circle, the deeper and shorter your box will be. This box is about 5.5 inches wide and I usually use a lid that is 6.5-8.5 inches in diameter for this size.

Using the pointed end of your bone folder, score along the edge of the lid. Do this at the top and bottom of your paper and cut along the score lines. Then line the lid up the other way to the corners of your box, so that outer curve is going in toward the center of your box. Score along the lid. Do this 4 times; on both sides of your box, on the top and the bottom.

Next, carefully fold in along your score line, starting with the seamed side of your box first.

Fold in all sides.

Finally, decorate with ribbons and tags :)

We hope your summer is going great!

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